Helpful Hints

11Jan/100

Showing certain number of items in archive category in WordPress

Probably many of you faced a lot of items in archive showing on first page and all other pages in wordpress.

To fix that go to you theme editor in wordpress, find sidebar.php, or left_sidebar.php/right_sidebar.php (depending on the theme you are using). Find something like that:
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>

Replace with:
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=5'); ?>

Where 5 is the number of items to be displayed.

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10Jan/100

Wrong characters in application installations

Many of you probably were facing the problem, when you install a game or a software you can't read what is written there. It ussually happens when the application is not in english, but in your native language, for example russian.

To fix that in Windows 7 open Control panel, then "Region and language". Go to administrative tab and change system locale under "Language for non-Unicode programs". You should change it to your native language you should be using more often. After changing that you should restart to apply changes.

In Windows XP go to Control panel, Regional and language options.

Changing language for non-unicode programs in Windows 7

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9Jan/100

Windows automatically restarts

I would like to describe this most common problem for windows users, solution is very simple. This hint probably shall save a lot of nerves and energy of people fighting this problem. If you don't know still i will tell you! This case is actually very common with windows XP, but i advise you to do it on all windows versions just in case.

So here we go:
In Windows 7: Right click "Computer", select properties (or press "win+pause/break"). Then go to "Advanced system settings" then click "Advanced" tab, choose Startup and Recovery Settings. Uncheck "Automatically restart check box under System failure. Click OK several times. That's it!

In Windows XP the process is almost the same. In Windows Vista it is actually the same.

Windows 7 automatic restart fix